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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 30, 2011?

43 free events take place on Wednesday, March 30 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out March 30 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of March . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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43 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
Free

Lecture | The Peoples of the Plains


Learn about the peoples of the Plains with Laura Browarny.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Health Information Online


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn to find consumer health information online, including doctors' credentials, hospital information, drug side effects, conventional and alternative medical treatments of diseases, diets, weight loss, nutrition and exercises, and how to evaluate these websites.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Park Walk | “Views from the Past” Tour


As you promenade through the heart of the Park, imagine yourself living in 19th Century New York City. Learn about the Park's history and how its designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, struggled to create the magnificent "Greensward" for the enjoyment of all. Tour lasts approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Grand Central Terminal Tour


Tour of this magnificent Beaux-Arts landmark.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Discussion | A discussion on musician Nina Simone and writer Lorraine Hansberry


Led by Shelly Eversley. Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) worked with Paul Robeson and WEB DuBois writing political speeches, letters, and essays before her best-known work, A Raisin in the Sun, became a Broadway hit in 1959. She was active in the women’s movement and supported and inspired many other artists, including Nina Simone, who borrowed Hanberry’s title, “Young, Gifted and Black” for a song that would become a hit single in 1969 (four years after Hansberry’s early death). Nina Simone (1933–2003) was a musician whose thwarted aspirations to become a classical pianist led her to forge one of the most original and influential jazz styles of her day. She was a major influence and inspiration in the American civil rights movement. This salon will focus on these two exceptional African American female artists in the context of the black avant-garde as it took formation from WWII forward.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

Concert | Student Instrumental and Vocal Performances


Student recital.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
Free

Jazz | Bill Wurtzel, Jazz Guitarist


Enjoy free live music performed by jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guest musicians.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Talk | Learn About Taino Culture


Jorge Estevez discusses Taino culture past and present using traditional handling objects in an interactive informal setting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | “Amble Through the Ramble” Tour


Over streams, under arches, through the woods along a maze of pathways in a 38-acre woodland respite. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Master Class | Joy In Singing


Art song master class with Paul Sperry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


A free Stay Well exercise session. Stay Well volunteers cetrified by the NYC's Department for the aging will lead participants in a well-balanced series of exercises for seniors of all ability levels. Please wear loose comfortable clothing. Exercise equipment will be provided. All participants are required to sign a personal medical waiver at the beginning of the class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free

Other | Teen Battle Chef Showdown


Featuring teen cooks from local schools.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free

Lecture | The Possibility of Biology


With Laura Franklin-Hall, Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Organisms are composed of countless kinds of molecules interacting in a wide variety of ways. From this complexity, regular organism behavior often emerges, behavior of the kind described in animal guidebooks. Professor Franklin-Hall will characterize some of the biological design principles which explain how simple organism behavior can emerge from molecular complexity. This characterization will help us to understand how biological theory is related to theories in the 'lower-level' sciences, such as chemistry and physics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Featured Library Database: Biography in Context


Hands on using wireless laptops. Find information on more than 525,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Search for specific people by name, occupation, nationality and other criteria or browse biographies by category.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Talk | The Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War Generation


As unbelievable as it seems, many individuals who participated in the American Revolution lived past the advent of photography in 1839. Take a step back into the eighteenth century through the photographs and stories of these men and women. Learn about the detective work involved in uncovering these “misplaced” pictures and find out new ways to discover the Revolutionary War generation in your own family. Maureen Taylor, specializes in photo analysis and interpretation. The Wall Street Journal called her the “nation’s foremost historical photo detective.” Maureen has spoken at conferences large and small throughout the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Adult Yoga


Join us on Wednesday evenings for open-level yoga with a certified instructor! Please wear comfortable clothes and bring your yoga mat or a beach towel. All participants must sign a waiver form before they join in. For adults 18+.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta


A Vietnam-era radical goes underground after a bombing plot goes awry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Descartes the Medical Philosopher


The early modern mathematician and natural philosopher René Descartes had a lifelong interest in medicine and medical questions. This lecture will call attention to the extent of Descartes’ medicinal interests and argue that we cannot adequately appreciate Descartes or the history of science and philosophy in the seventeenth century unless we acknowledge the existence of medical philosophers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Other | Eiko & Koma Naked: A Living Installation


This two-week-long movement/visual art installation features Eiko & Koma's exploration of nakedness, desire, and the elasticity of time, set in an immersive and charged organic environment of their handcrafted design. In Naked, Eiko & Koma will be on continual view, in closer proximity to the audience than ever before. In adjacent spaces, view a companion video installation highlighting Eiko & Koma's decades of media work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Performance | Super Free Wednesday Comedy Shows


Featuring: Recess, Watson + Tuscarora Fire Company Picnic, The Whiskey Rebellion + Stranger, Local 154 and Borealis, Handsy + The Faculty and Friends, and Improdome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk with Aki Sasamoto


A lecture by artist Aki Sasamoto, who works in performance, sculpture, dance, and various other media. Her works have been shown both in performing art and visual art venues in New York City and abroad, and she has collaborated with artists in visual arts, music, and dance as a dancer, sculptor, or director. Sasamoto is also co-founder and co-director of Culture Push, a non-profit arts organization in which diverse professionals meet through artist-led projects and cross-disciplinary symposia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Discussion | A Conversation with Met Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato


Fred Plotkin will be speaking to Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, starring in Bartlett Sher's new production of Rossini's Le Comte Ory and Strauss' Ariadne Auf Naxos at the Met.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Afro-Latin@ History: Power, Dreams & Art for Our Times


With the presentation of Afro-Latin@ Reader as a point of departure, join co-editors Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores for a discussion about Afro-Latin@ culture, followed by the screening of documentaries Dream Town and We of the Saya. Grupo Chonta will be in charge of the music for the evening. Dream Town [Dir. Betty Bastidas, U.S./Ecuador, 2010, documentary, 24 min. Spanish with English Subtitles, DVD] We of the Saya [Dir. Aumoya B. Holguín, U.S./Bolivia, work-in progress, documentary, Spanish with English Subtitles, DVD].
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Computer Open Lab


Hands on using wireless laptops. Are you having trouble with your email? Don't know how to cut and paste? Curious about Twitter? Bring Technology questions and get one-on-one assistance!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Fiction Forum: Rick Moody


Moody’s most recent work is The Four Fingers of Death. His other books include Demonology, The Ice Storm, Purple America, and Garden State. He is a recipient of the Addison Metcalf Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Moody has contributed fiction and essays to a number of major publications and has been widely anthologized.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
$5

Discussion | Panel Discussion and Book Launch: Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism


A panel discussion on artist and architect Yona Friedman’s legacy. The event celebrates the recent exhibition that used Friedman’s theoretical project, Spatial City, as a point of departure from which to bring together for the first time a selection of international works from the FRAC, Regional Collections of Contemporary Art in France. Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism was on view in Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit in 2009-2010. Panelists include Nicholas Frank, Curator at Invova, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sylvie Froux, Laurence Gateau, and Emmanuel Latreille, directors of Fonds Regionaux d'Art Contemporain (FRAC), and Kristina Solomoukha, artist. Luis Croquer, Director of MOCAD Detroit will be present. Moderated by Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Thomas Reppetto discusses his book American Police


The author brings to life the rich panorama of American policing - the key actors, organizations and events in American policing. A careerist in public/criminal justice administration profiles different types of police organizations in a number of locales over a 100-year period.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Why Architecture Matters: Its Impact on Our Lives


With Paul Goldberger. America’s foremost interpreter of public architecture offers his own way of experiencing the built world and explores how it impacts our lives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Lecture | “Convivencia” at Timbuktu: Jewish Influence on West African Architecture


In the past, many in the academic community viewed West Africa as isolated from the rest of the continent. In this lecture, distinguished scholar Labelle Prussin discusses a historic nexus of Jewish traders, scholars, builders, and artisans in Timbuktu who were linked to North Africa via the historic trans-Saharan trade routes. Dr. Prussin will share examples of architectural and artisanal similarities that may point to an Islamic-cum-Judaic convivencia (coexistence) that contributed to and enriched the African architectural landsca pe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Author Reading | Carla Peterson discusses her book Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth Century New York City


In conversation with the Pulitzer-prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Lauren Redniss reads from her book Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie


In 1891, 24 year old Marie, née Marya Sklodowska, moved from Warsaw to Paris, where she found work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, a scientist engaged in research on heat and magnetism. They fell in love. They took their honeymoon on bicycles. They expanded the periodic table, discovering two new elements with startling properties, radium and polonium. They recognized radioactivity as an atomic property, heralding the dawn of a new scientific era. They won the Nobel Prize. Newspapers mythologized the couple's romance, beginning articles on the Curies with "Once upon a time . . . " Then, in 1906, Pierre was killed in a freak accident. Marie continued their work alone. She won a second Nobel Prize in 1911, and fell in love again, this time with the married physicist Paul Langevin. Scandal ensued. Duels were fought.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Lisa Lillien discusses her book Hungry Girl 300 Under 300: 300 Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Dishes Under 300 Calories


The founder of the popular diet website hungrygirl.com shares her new collection of recipes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Tamagawa University Dance & Taiko Group


Jonathan Haas, Director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Conference | Nonconformism and Dissent in the Soviet Bloc: Guiding Legacy or Passing Memory?


The conference will focus on political and cultural nonconformism in Ukraine, Russia, and Poland in the 1960s to 80s. It will bring together an international assemblage of scholars studying that period of time as well several noteworthy dissidents and artists. The conference will offer a historical overview of the period and will present the latest research conducted on the subject. Additionally, the conference will provide an analysis of the political and cultural legacies of these movements in today’s Ukraine, Russia, and Poland. Participants: Myroslav Marynovych, Pavel Litvinov, Henryk Wujec, Vitaly Komar, Ewa Wójciak, Volodymyr Dibrova, Mykola Riabchuk, Peter Reddaway, Ann Komaromi, Benjamin Nathans, Alexander Motyl, Justyna Beinek, Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Michael Bernhard, Jeri Laber, Mark Andryczyk, Orest Deychakiwsky, Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Anna Procyk, Christina Isajiw, William Risch, Anna Frajlich-Zajac, Yuri Shevchuk, Timothy Frye, Tarik Amar, Frank Sysyn, and Victor Morozov.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Pete Hamill, Mike Lupica and Colum McCann discuss At the Fights


Join editor George Kimball and authors Pete Hamill, Robert Lipsyte, Mike Lupica and Colum McCann as they discuss the book At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing. It's a special event fans of the sweet science won't want to miss.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Dance Performance | Major Dance Concert


Works choreographed by guest artists and members of the Second Avenue Dance Company. The Second Avenue Dance Company comprises of graduate and undergraduate students in their final year of study. Presented by the Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Musical Workshop: Sweet Charity


Presented by the current students.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Repertory Orchestra 2011


The Repertory Orchestra is comprised of Mannes students and meets once a week to give Mannes student conductors the opportunity to rehearse orchestral repertoire under the guidance of David Hayes, Director of Orchestral and Conducting Studies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
Free

Jazz | 5/5/5 After Hours Set


A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of Manhattan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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